My Reflection On This Year

My highlights this year has been amazing because I had alot of fun working and playing with my friends, especially doing something for the school.  I enjoy going on trips especially with the whole school, in class I enjoy doing maths because maths is my favourite subject to do in the times that I'm doing nothing.

When I leave I hope for the school to have a better future and a better environment. I hope that there will be great leaders to lead the school in Faith, Hope, and Love, and to make the right choices. I will try to courage the leaders to inspire younger kids to grow up and have a good life.

Journey at St Pius X Catholic School

This is a video that Alecia the amazing girl, has put together of us the year 8's to share with the whole school about our journey at St Pius X Catholic School. I hope you enjoy it. 

 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  God Bless.

SPX Events 2015

Here is a video of the kind of things we have been doing during this year. Hope You Enjoy

Cultural Festival/ Story Of Our School

This is a short presentation of what happened on Friday 6th 2015

Kiwi Sport

Today for touch.  Our couch ran us on some few fun drills, the drills are to help us practise our movements and catching the ball for the girls.  Since the Room 7 girls have some weak skills, we got split into a girl and a boy group and practised.  After all the practise we did another drill, I think that drill is about getting us use to our foot work and helping us to be aware for the people around us when we're  running. 

Communion Of Saint

Kiwi Sport / Touch

Learn:  To share what I have learned this morning

This morning the whole school had kiwi sport, our kiwi sport this morning was touch,  Room 7 had an amazing morning playing touch with our instructor, I can tell that she was an expert.  We played some amazing drills to help us warm up before we get into the real thing.  I felt tired during our warm up game, our instructor tells us something like an object in order and what we have to do is go and touch it in order.

We had three rounds playing our warm up game.  Then we get into our game,  the grid game its when we have to get into 2 teams we put our bibs on and everyone gets into the grid, any team can go first but after making a try they have to pass it to the other team.  We had a few fun rounds playing the grid game until our time was over, we took off our bibs and made our way back to class.

PAT Maths Test

This morning was our PAT test.  I was very stressed and worried because some of the questions in my test were complicated and hard but I managed to finish my test on time and hopefully I did my best.  When ever I struggled with a question I tried to work it out by memorizing the strategies we went through with my teacher,  even though I struggled, I chose the answer I thought was best .  During my test I was a bit lazy because I took my time, sitting around looking at the walls or out the window.

Welcome to my learning Journey for term 4

Holiday Recount

Learn: To Share An Experience

Brainstorm

My holiday writing.

During the holidays my family had a really fun trip ahead of us. We were heading to a waterfall nearby. It was our favourite place to go to, especially when it was family time. I admired going to the waterfall with my family because we spent more time together. We were very lucky because when we got there no one else was there, but us. I counted it as a blessing because we got the waterfall all to ourselves.

Usually when people are there we never get enough peace or space to our family. We went and set up at our favourite spot. We like to sit under the tree because it has a lot of shades. Before we all got wet we climbed to the very top where the waterfall starts and then jumped down. When I jumped down I was very terrified. My cousin could tell that I was really scared by the look on my face. Although I did admit to them that I was scared of heights. Even though I was scared, but I kept telling myself that I can do it. When I finally jumped down a whole water of relief flowed around me. I was so thankful that I didn’t hurt myself.

For a few minutes I found myself floating in the water with my cousins. Then the next minute we were sitting on the rock with our legs splashing in the water. Then my sister came up with a game we should play. She suggested diving competition. I knew it was a bit dangerous to play but I also knew that we were going to have lots of fun. Luckily we brought a volleyball along with us. So instead of having a competition we decided to play volley. Playing volley was such a good idea because laughter was everywhere around us. What I found the funniest was my cousins laugh. She honestly sounded like a minion.  

After being in the water we got out and had lunch, delicious otai with ham sandwich that my mum made for us.  Unfortunately we couldn’t stay longer because it was getting dark.  We had to go back home. So after lunch we packed up and made our way home.  When we got home we cleaned up and had a very long sleep.

My image of God

Learn: I can a find sign that help me to know that God is present by looking at this raindrop.

I see God in this rain drop because every time it rains I always think that God is crying and that his tears are the rains. It's falling on us so we can feel how he feels so we know that we are not the only one who's hurt.

The 3 Sacraments Groups (Activity)

MATCH COLUMN A TO COLUMN B

Learn:  I am going to explain the 3 different groups of the Sacrament

SACRAMENT GROUPS		PURPOSE
THE SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION		These Sacraments consecrate people for the important roles of service in the life of the community
THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING		The Sacraments enable people to become full members of the Church, committed to Christ and the carrying on his mission in the world as sons and daughters of God - whanau a Te Atua
THE SACRAMENTS OF COMMITMENT		These Sacraments enable people to meet the Risen Christ bringing them healing - houhou rongo in mind, body and soul.

The 3 groups of Sacrament

Tongan Language Week

On a Friday morning room 7 turned up at school dressing very beautiful,  Here is a picture we took altogether.

Magical Trip

This is a short move of my favourite sea creature that I saw at Kelly tarlton.

My Response to Sean

An amazing 10 year old boy from Massachusetts, became a fan of sharks after watching shark week on discovery channel when he was the age of 3.  Since then he continued to learn about sharks as he strongly wanted to protect their safety.  

He wrote a proposal to the government twice to make  shark finning illegal.  He continued to protest against the shark-finning.   Sean is a confident young man who is a good role model for young people.  He is very knowledgeable in the topic.

Sean is determined to become a marine biologist, and continue work with the protection of sharks.

The Warriors Visit

 

Today we had an awesome morning because we had visitors from the Warriors.  Ken Maumalo, David, and a very beautiful women who came and talked to us about what they eat and drink.  

The best part was when we all played a game that the visitors introduced to us.  It was a Food version of heads up, but it was heaps of fun.  Who ever goes up, comes back down with a prize for example a warrior ball or a water bottle.

I think it was an amazing morning for all of us and I hope that the rest of the school enjoyed it.

The story of Te Arohuruhuru

Our group's story is about Te Arohuruhuru, it's a very sad story because Te Arohuruhuru committed suicide   because she was embarrassed of her bare body. 

If you want to read the whole story here is the link.

The legend of Te Arohuruhuru.

Basic Facts MathsPractise

Here is my basic Test for this Friday. I still need a lot of practise but I think I did good.

My Holiday Recount

My writing goals.

To plan group ideas effectively before writing.

To add details to my ideas by using specific vocabulary and to give examples.

To maintain consistent tense throughout my writing .

To use appropriate punctuation correctly and consistently in my writing.

To plan before writing

Tuesday, 23 July 2015.✓  😊

As always holidays are supposed to be fun. To me the holidays have always been boring, I wanted to come back to school. I constantly thought about school, and my friends. When suddenly my mum burst through my door room all dressed up, make up on, hair down, not heels but flat shoes.

I was surprised because it's been a while she looked like that , Then I remembered she was having a girl’s nights out.  The only reason why she burst into my room was to warn me and my sister, not to do anything dumb while she's out,  and to keep the house clean.

When she left my eyes were so big which means we have the whole house to ourselves, just me and my sister. We did so many things together.

Playing karate in the living room.

Made easy brownies- when I mean easy it's really easy.

Put makeup on each other and took selfies. 

Ate chocolate bars.

All those things we did that night were memories, I really enjoyed it even my sister. We did so many things together just in that night.  The good thing about that night was we worked together to clean the house, change the sheets in the room because there were stains on it from the make up, Packed away the dishes and tidied up the living room.

At 10: 23 we were dead asleep, tired from all the cleaning. We don’t know when our mum came back, I don’t know about my sister but I know I heard our kitchen door open.